We made it! My team and I have been in Paris since Thursday morning. We took an overnight flight from Washington Dulles on Wednesday night. I passed out the entire 7 hours, which kind of put me on schedule already without too much bad jet lag. We got into Paris at 1:30pm, a couple hours later than we were supposed to. Customs was a breeze, and I have my first stamp in my new passport. I'm still bummed that I had to give up my last passport since it was about to expire.
We checked into our hotel- and it is AWESOME. There are four of us- Arli, Jason, and Steve, and we have this great two-bedroom suite that has its own bathrooms and doors, a living area (common area), a dining room table, and a kitchen complete with dishwasher and laundry machines! It's a pretty sweet deal, and extremely roomy. Right outside our door, oddly enough, is the Eiffel Tower. I mean, you can see it. This is what I mean:
Our hotel is Hotel Elysees Union. That's how close the Eiffel Tower is! Splendid!
It was really weird. We didn't notice the Eiffel Tower at all when the cab dropped us off initially. When we left the hotel the first time, we were like, oh...look...Eiffel Tower! Weird.
We walked around the first night. We are right off the Arc du Triomphe, and less than a mile walk from the Eiffel Tower. Pretty close! I'm just giving out a warning now- there are going to be PLENTY of pictures of the Eiffel Tower just because we happen to be around it all the time. We had an awesome first team picture:
Team Paris!
Gorgeous!!! This is sooo close to us!
So we pretty much did some exploring with our coach, had some food, and went back to the hotel to pass out. Next day, I got to see Duane and DeVere :) Here they are over breakfast:
Parisian breakfast
Good thing is I'll see them again Sunday night for dinner. After breakfast, I met back with my team and we went to the International Chamber of Commerce.
In front of the ICC!!
Eiffel tower lit up at night is so pretty!
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